Supporting Workers in a Warming World | Adam Penny, Graham Petersen & Ashif Shaikh

Extreme heat is no longer a distant climate issue. It is already changing how people work, where they can work, and whether work remains safe at all. In this session, Adam Penny speaks with Graham Petersen of the Greener Jobs Alliance and Ashif Shaikh of People’s Courage International about climate risk, worker protection, migration, health, unions, heat stress, air pollution and practical solutions including cooling centres, hydration programmes and parametric insurance. #ClimateAction #WorkersRights #FutureOfWork #ClimateHealth #justtransition 00:00 Supporting workers in a warming world 00:43 Why unions must treat climate as a health and safety issue 02:26 The case for a legal maximum working temperature 03:20 Extreme heat, air pollution and unsafe work 04:20 What heatwave protocols can teach employers 05:57 What extreme heat looks like for migrant workers 07:38 Heat, poverty, migration and vulnerability 08:49 Parametric insurance as a worker protection tool 11:18 Cooling centres, hydration and practical support 12:04 Why solutions are not scaling fast enough 14:08 What the UK can learn from the Global South 16:37 Good work standards and employer responsibility 17:45 Heat, migrant workers and the World Cup 20:23 Equity, unionisation and reaching vulnerable workers